Cape Town Mission Field 

6 April 2018
Day 118
Friday

We stopped at the Post Office then filled up the van (R930, approximately $70). After Elder Courtright backed the van up against the fence along the north side of the property he heard a tiny pop, pop, pop sound. It had rained that night and he followed the sound over to where he found a frog that had tried to hop over the electrified fence and met his match. Elder Courtright got a broom stick and pushed him off the bottom two wires of the fence to halt the zapping.

In the evening we went to the V&A Waterfront. Sister Courtright found some interesting circular chairs in the square outside the Silo Hotel. She sat down in it and started to roll around and around.

We then visited the Shimansky Diamond museum. It was an amazing history of the diamonds found in the Kimberly mine and the De Beers family that sold out but kept the family name associated right up to the time Cecil Rhodes purchased it. The biggest rough diamond (the Cullinan, 3100 carats) produced the 3 large stones placed in the Crown jewels plus 6 others kept in the Queens private collection. England was the ruling body at that time and ergo everything discovered belonged to the crown.

Glass replica

We toured the facility where the diamond cutter artisans plan their cutting, add the facets, polish, and set the diamonds. We viewed under a loop the perfect 'my girl' cut which produces 7 heart shaped reflections.

We then walked the dock area and run across a large 3-masted ship that takes people on a working cruise (30 days at a time) where they bunk and run the ship and its ropes, sails, and climb to the crows nest to take watch.

The Tenacious (www.jst.org.uk)